Facebook posts about a missing Colorado couple found dead in an abandoned Utah mine appeared to have spawned from another ...

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The Laramide statement says while the FAST-41 designation helps its goal of breaking ground in what would be the first new uranium mine in New Mexico in more than 50 years, “continued policy ...

The mine is owned by Anfield Energy Inc., headquartered in Canada. It produced 400,000 tons of uranium ore between 1979 and 1984, according to the company, before it shut down.

The Interior Department said it would fast-track the permitting process for a uranium mine in Utah as part of President Trump’s plan to shorten environmental reviews and speed the construction ...

FILE - A uranium ore pile is the first to be mined at the Energy Fuels Inc. uranium Pinyon Plain Mine Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, near Tusayan, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) ...

The mines were in operation from 1974 to the mid-1980s and had produced about 1.2 million tons of ore, making them among the 10 highest producing mines on the Navajo Nation.

Environmental reviews of mining operations would typically take months or even years. But it took just 11 days for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to approve the Velvet-Wood uranium mine's plan ...

FILE - A uranium ore pile is the first to be mined at the Energy Fuels Inc. uranium Pinyon Plain Mine Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, near Tusayan, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File) ...

Energy Fuels, another Canadian company which ranks as the top U.S. uranium miner, opened the Pinyon Plain mine about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Grand Canyon in late 2023.

Most uranium mining occurred in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, the height of the Cold War. Processed uranium was used in the first nuclear bomb and is still utilized in nuclear ...